Tom Hartman to Lecture at
"Turning 2000: A Millennial Weekend" at C.W. Post
Monsignor Tom Hartman - an Emmy Award winning director of
radio and television for Long Island TeLIcare and co-host of
the weekly national talk show "God Squad" - will lecture
at "Turning 2000: A Millennial Weekend" scheduled for
October 15, 16 and 17 at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University in Brookville.
Msgr. Hartman's inspirational message, titled "The New
Millennium: We Know Too Much About How We Are Different ... And
Not Enough About How We Are the Same," will take place on
Sunday, October 17 at 9 a.m. in the Great Hall. There is a fee
for the lecture.
Msgr. Hartman has donated uncountable hours to charities and
not-for-profit organizations around the world, including Food
for the Poor, Island Harvest, Harry Chapin Foundation, and the
Center for Developmental Disabilities. He is a frequent lecturer
on scripture, spirituality and family, as well as author of several
books, including Where Does God Live?, The Matter of
Life and Death, and How Do You Spell God?
Msgr. Hartman is also host of the weekly television series
"Father Tom and Friends" and "A Moment with Father
Tom," as well as the national weekly radio talk show "Journeys
Through Rock" on WABC radio. Throughout his remarkable career,
Msgr. Hartman Tom has been honored with numerous awards, including
two Emmys, an Ace, several Man of the Year awards, the Humanitarian
Award by the Boy Scouts of America, and Outstanding Young Man
of America. He is based at Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville.
Monsignor Hartman has been a member of the Long Island University
Board of Trustees since 1995.
Msgr. Hartman's lecture will be just one topic of discussion
at Turning 2000, a conference on the new millennium at the C.W.
Post Campus on October 15, 16 and 17, 1999. The future of evolution,
the economy, literature, politics, health care, the arts, and
the environment will be up for debate and discussion as well.
More than 40 lectures, discussions, exhibits and theatrical performances
will probe issues of special importance to New Yorkers.
Msgr. Hartman will join such renowned speakers as Oliver Sacks,
Stephen Jay Gould, Harold Bloom, Anna Deavere Smith and Danny
Hillis. The conference will offer lectures and workshops for
the general public as well as elementary, secondary and college
students. Admission fees are: three-day full weekend pass: $100;
two-day pass: $80; one-day pass: $40. The C.W. Post Campus is
located on Northern Boulevard (Route 25A), Brookville, New York
(exit 41N off the LIE). For more information, call (516) 299-2700,
e-mail turn2000@cwpost.liu.edu or visit the web site at www.liu.edu/turn2000.
For more information call the C.W. Post
Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu or send
mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
